Some
say that travel and Tourism is the world’s largest industry and generator of
quality jobs’ (world travel and tourism council, 1995:1), estimated by
contributing of 11 percents of gross world product, 1999 WTTC estimate that GWP
related to travel and tourism total $3.3 trillion, 187 million jobs and
generating $729 billion in taxes.
Futurist
John Naisbitt (1994) in his book global
paradox subscribes to the concept that tourism will be one of the three
industries that will drive the world economy into 21st century,
expanding global economic.
The scope of tourism
World
Tourism Organization, the affiliate of the UN standardized tourism terminology.
Tourism
comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside
their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure,
business and other purposes.
Visitor is any person travelling to a place other than
that of his or her usual environment for less than twelve months and whose main
purpose of trip is other than exercise of an activity remunerated from within
the place visited.
Tourists
are visitor who stay at least one night in a collective or private
accommodation in a place visited.
The
Same-day visitor is a visitor who does not spend the night in a collective or
private accommodation in the place visited. This includes cruise passangers who
debark in a country but spend their nights on board ship.
Tourism
Expenditure is the total consumption expenditure made by a visitor on behalf of
a visitor for and during his or her trip and stay at a destination.
The
tourism industries designate the set of enterprises, establishments and other
organizations one of whose principal activities is to provide goods and or
services to tourist.
Tourism
demand is a measure of visitors use* of good or service.
‘use’
in this case means to make use of a thing, especially for a particular end or
purpose; utilize’ (Brown, 1993:3531)
Visitors
arrivals in a country or local area constitute tourism demand since visitors
avail themselves if the services of a destination in arriving there.
Tourism
demand can be measured in a variety of units, including a national currency,
arrivals, nights, days, distance travelled and passengers-seats occupied.